Timeline (RDM)

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This article attempts to plot the events illustrated or mentioned in the history and prehistory of the Twelve Colonies in the Re-imagined Series.

About the Colonial Calendar

Essentially, the Colonial timeline, as portrayed in the series, is very inconsistent. While events are measured in the same units as on the real-world Earth, the dating system is not defined, complicating the plotting of events. Like the avoidance of technobabble, the likely reason for this problem is the avoidance by the show's producers from narrowing their storylines by establishing fixed dates and times. The closest depiction of an actual calendar is shown in the dossier of William Adama's career in the episode, "Hero" (see Adama's Dossier).

The Colonial calendar is fairly similar to the Gregorian calendar, using 24 hour days and approximately 365 day years. The best example of this is in "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down," where Baltar says that each test takes 11 hours. As there are 47,905 tests, amounting to 526,955 hours worth of tests, this will take him 21,956 days, or 60.1534 years (as confirmed by Baltar's Internal Six), the same as it would on Earth.

Writers have introduced some inconsistencies which have led to "retroactive continuity" problems. This article's purpose, however, is not to specifically detail these problems. Timeline items with continuity problems are marked in italics, and a reference note is added that briefly details the inconsistency. All continuity issues can be detailed in the article, Continuity errors (RDM).

All dates use the day of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies as the central time marker for all events in the series (as 0 A.C.E., or After the Christian Era, would be used to reference times and dates on the real-world Earth). Items that occur before the Fall are marked as "BCH," or "Before Cylon holocaust."

Ancient History

• 4,000 years BCH: The Thirteenth Tribe leaves the planet Kobol, later leaving a beacon in space and building the Temple of Five (The Eye of Jupiter)
• 3,600 years BCH: Pythia records her prophecies
• 2,000 years BCH: The remaining Twelve Tribes leave Kobol
• 2,000 years to 52 years BCH: The Twelve Colonies grow and prosper. Each colony acts as a sovereign nation, complete with inter-colonial wars
• 55 - 52 years BCH: Somewhere during this time, the Cylons are built to aid in hard labor and warfare (Caprica (series), Miniseries)

Recent Colonial History

• 69 years BCH: Saul Tigh born (defined by deleted scene in "Scattered" concerning the Brenik)
• 64 years BCH: William Adama born in Qualai, Caprica (Hero)
• 52 years BCH: Cylon revolt begins the first Cylon War (Colonial Day)
• 52 years BCH: Articles of Colonization signed (Colonial Day, RDM, April 11, 2005).
• 51 years BCH Colonial ship Brenik is lost after a boarding action by Cylon Centurions
• 50 years BCH: Battlestar Galactica enters service
• 41 years BCH: William Adama begins his service in the Colonial Fleet as a Viper pilot, near the end of the Cylon War
• 40 years BCH: Armistice ends the Cylon War; Cylons exile themselves from the Twelve Colonies (miniseries)
• 34 years: BCH: William Adama furloughed from the Colonial Fleet ("Scattered," "Hero")
• 20 years BCH:
  • Last significant FTL jump recorded in Galactica's logs.
  • Tom Zarek imprisoned for blowing up a government building on Sagittaron (Bastille Day)
  • William Adama and Saul Tigh first meet (Scattered, podcast)
• 17 years BCH: William Adama reinstated in the Colonial Fleet at the rank of Major ("Scattered," "Hero")
• 11 years BCH: Major William "Husker" Adama assigned to battlestar Atlantia
  • Laura Roslin begins her career in politics (Litmus).
• 7 years BCH:
  • Saul and Ellen Tigh marry. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I, deleted scene)
  • William Adama promoted to Colonel and assigned as XO to battlestar Columbia (Hero)
• 5 years BCH:
  • Laura Roslin's last breast exam prior to her cancer diagnosis (Act of Contrition)
  • Galen Tyrol assigned to Columbia under Col. Adama (Litmus)
• 3 years BCH:
  • Felix Gaeta assigned to Valkyrie (Miniseries)
  • William Adama is promoted to Commander and assigned to battlestar Valkyrie (Hero)
  • Saul Tigh is promoted to Colonel and assigned to Valkyrie (Hero)
  • Galen Tyrol assigned to Valkyrie (Miniseries, Hero)
• 2 years BCH:
  • Caprica Six begins residence on Caprica (Downloaded), first encounters Dr. Gaius Baltar (Miniseries)
  • Sharon Valerii begins service aboard Galactica (The Farm)
  • Zak Adama dies in a flight school accident (Miniseries)
  • Lt. Kara Thrace is re-assigned from Flight School to Galactica (Act of Contrition)
• 1 Year BCH: Last time William Adama and Caroline Adama speak (Miniseries)
  • William Adama leads aborted covert intelligence mission aboard Valkyrie. Daniel Novacek is shot down and captured by the Cylons (Hero)
  • William Adama, Saul Tigh, Felix Gaeta are re-assigned to battlestar Galactica (Hero)
  • Caroline Adama gets engaged (Miniseries)
  • Anastasia Dualla last visits her home (Final Cut)

Events of the Miniseries

• Zero Hour:
  • The Armistice Station is destroyed by Cylon forces
  • Laura Roslin is diagnosed with inoperable breast cancer
  • Galactica is decommissioned
  • The Twelve Colonies are heavily bombarded by nuclear bombs
  • Picon Fleet Headquarters is destroyed
  • A Colonial battle near Virgon ends with the total loss of the Colonial Fleet
  • Battlestar Pegasus luckily escapes the destruction of the Scorpian Fleet Shipyards (Pegasus)
  • Galactica engages Cylon Raiders and survives with moderate damage and 85 dead
  • Last transmission from the Colonies received by Laura Roslin aboard Colonial Heavy 798 from a fellow secretary
  • Case Orange contingency mechanism assigns Roslin the office of the President of the Twelve Colonies
  • Roslin gathers stranded civilian and military ships around the vicinity of Caprica
  • Commander Adama assumes overall Fleet command and orders regroup at Ragnar Anchorage
  • Roslin's caravan survives two Cylon attacks and meets at Ragnar
  • Galactica changes from battle stance to civilian protection, escorts civilian fleet from Ragnar, towards the Prolmar Sector

Season 1

Note: The timeline assumes that the days shown on Caprica with Helo corresponds to the timeline on Galactica. This is supported in the season 1 finale "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II," when Starbuck travels from Galactica to Caprica and discovers Helo.

"33" through "Hand of God"

• Day 6: Galactica pursued by the Cylons for six days. The ship Olympic Carrier is destroyed (33)
• Day 7:
  • First new child born on the Rising Star
  • Pegasus encounters a fleet of 15 civilian ships, including Scylla (Resurrection Ship, Part I)
• Day 10: Galactica’s water tanks damaged by sabotage (Water)
• Day 12: Prisoner uprising, led by Tom Zarek on the Astral Queen (Bastille Day)
• Day 14: Starbuck goes missing after a battle with Cylon forces (Act of Contrition)
• Day 15: Starbuck returns to the Fleet (You Can't Go Home Again)
• Day 17: A suicide bomber nearly kills Adama and Tigh; investigation centers on Galen Tyrol (Litmus).
• Day 21: First recollection by any of the Rising Star crewmembers of giving Ellen Tigh medical assistance (before "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down")
• Day 24:
  • "Caprica" Valerii and Helo make love for the first time
  • "Shelly Godfrey" implicates Dr. Baltar in the attack on the Colonies; she later disappears (Six Degrees of Separation)
• Day 25: A copy of Leoben Conoy found, interrogated and ejected from airlock (Flesh and Bone)
• Day 26: Ellen Tigh regains consciousness ("a couple of days" before "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down")
• Day 28: William Adama retrieves Ellen Tigh (Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down)
• Day 36:
  • Galactica engages a Cylon mining base and retrieves needed tylium fuel
  • "Caprica-Valerii" begins showing the first signs of pregnancy (The Hand of God)

Colonial Day

• Day 46 - 49:
  • Delegates selected for the Quorum of Twelve, including Tom Zarek
  • Gaius Baltar selected to represent Caprica
  • A victory party leads Baltar and Thrace to interact
  • Helo and Caprica-Valerii infiltrate the spaceport. Helo discovers Valerii is a Cylon and flees

Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I

• Day 50:
  • Boomer and Crashdown stumble upon Kobol
  • Roslin unsuccessfully petitions Commander Adama to send the Cylon Raider after the Arrow of Apollo on Caprica.
  • Scout party ambushed by a basestar at Kobol

Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II

• Day 51:
  • Survivors of Raptor 1 escape the wreck
  • Adama terminates Roslin's presidency and arrests her
  • Starbuck absconds with the purloined Raider and arrives at Caprica, retrieving the Arrow of Apollo and meets up with Helo
  • Boomer successfully destroys basestar over Kobol
  • Boomer's Cylon programming activates; she shoots Commander Adama at point-blank range

Season 2

Note: Season 2 dates are rough guesses at best, and are complicated by the season two timeline discontinuity. Dates for the first half of the season are based on the last dates given at the end of season one.

"Scattered" through "The Farm"

• 'Day 51:
  • The Fleet is temporarily scattered after Galactica misses the proper emergency rendezvous point but later returns (Scattered)
  • Galactica is partially disabled by a Cylon virus while a Cylon Centurion boarding party unsuccessfully attempts to destroy the ship (Valley of Darkness)
  • Crashdown is shot by Gaius Baltar on Kobol after threatening to shoot Cally Henderson (Fragged)
• Day 52: Tigh interrogates Tyrol and imprisons him with Sharon Valerii (Resistance)

• Day 53:
  • Saul Tigh declares martial law after Roslin's arrest
  • The Gideon Massacre takes place
  • Tyrol poisoned by Baltar to gain information from Boomer, but is revived
  • Starbuck and Helo meet the Caprica Resistance and Samuel Anders
  • Cally Henderson kills Boomer (Resistance (episode))

• Day 54:
  • Commander Adama awakens
  • Roslin escapes from Galactica (Resistance (episode))

• Day 61:
  • Laura Roslin takes refuge on Kimba Huta
  • William Adama resumes command of Galactica
  • Kara Thrace is captured by the Cylons and taken to a Cylon Farm

• Day 62:
  • Kara Thrace is rescued
  • Thrace, Helo, and Caprica-Valerii leave Caprica for Kobol
  • The doctor who tended to Thrace at the Farm is revealed to be a Cylon agent (The Farm)

Home, Part I

• Day 62:
  • Kara Thrace's captured Heavy Raider lands her Heavy Raider aboard the Astral Queen
  • Roslin orders Valerii thrown into the brig instead
  • Commander Adama promotes Captain George Birch to be the new Galactica CAG

• Day 64:
  • Roslin's party begins search on Kobol for the Tomb of Athena
  • Elosha dies
  • Adama decides to reunite the Fleet and begins preparations for returning to Kobol

Home, Part II

• Day 65:
  • Adama's party joins with Roslin's party
  • Tomb of Athena found
  • Roslin reestablished as lawful President, Fleet reunified

Final Cut

• Day 75: D'anna Biers produces a documentary aboard the Galactica about the "Gideon massacre"

Flight of the Phoenix

The events of this episode likely occur over several weeks with the construction of the Blackbird, and it was designed to have a vague timeline per the episode podcast.

• Cally Henderson is released from the brig
• Laura Roslin is given a few weeks, a month at the most to live.
• Traces of the Cylon virus (Valley of Darkness) reemerge as a logic bomb and begin to disable Galactica's systems
• Tyrol begins construction of the Blackbird
• Galactica routs hundreds of Cylon fighters
• Cylon logic bomb purged from Galactica
• The Laura, the completed Blackbird, is successfully tested

Prior to the episode, "Sacrifice"

• Day ~140: Cylon Raiders attack the freighter Greenleaf; Ray Abinell is killed in the attack (Sacrifice)

Pegasus

The events in this episode create a timeline problem in season 2 events. As such, most events here are not timestamped.

• Galactica encounters battlestar Pegasus
• Admiral Helena Cain assumes fleet command
• Tyrol accidentally kills Pegasus Lieutenant Thorne and is arrested with Helo
• A standoff between the two battlestars begins over the treatment of the arrested Galactica crew

Resurrection Ship, Part I

• Day ~175:
  • The standoff between the two battlestars ends
  • Starbuck returns from an unauthorized surveillance mission to the Cylon fleet with data on the Resurrection Ship

Resurrection Ship, Part II

• Day ~177
  • The Battle of the Resurrection Ship occurs. The Resurrection Ship is destroyed
  • The Blackbird is destroyed in the battle
  • Admiral Cain is killed by Gina
  • President Roslin promotes William Adama to Admiral

Epiphanies

• Day 189:
  • President Roslin near death
  • A Cylon peace movement begins to pose as a threat to the Fleet
  • The Cylon fetus is eventually spared
  • Cylon fetal stem cells used to cure President Roslin
  • Baltar smuggles the nuclear weapon that he was provided with for work on his Cylon detector to the Cylon peace movement aboard Cloud Nine

Black Market

No timeline markers are available for this episode.

• Commander Fisk is murdered
• Lee Adama kills Phelan, leader of the Black Market crime syndicate

Scar

No timeline markers are available for this episode.

• Mining operations continue for over 28 days in an asteroid field
• Starbuck and Kat destroy an ace Cylon Raider, nicknamed "Scar

Sacrifice

No timeline markers are available for this episode.

• Sesha Abinell creates hostage situation on Cloud Nine
• Lee Adama wounded as a result of a failed rescue attempt by Kara Thrace
• Abinell and hostage takers are killed
• Billy Keikeya dies

The Captain's Hand

No timeline markers are available for this episode.

• Kara Thrace assigned to Pegasus as flight instructor
• Lee Adama has been promoted to Major and temporarily assigned to Pegasus
• Rya Kibby arrives on Galactica seeking a clandestine abortion from Dr. Cottle and requests asylum
• Pegasus Commander Barry Garner dies during the Battle of the Binary Star System.
• Major Adama is promoted to Commander and given command of Pegasus
• Roslin places a moratorium on abortion
• Vice President Gaius Baltar announces his candidacy for president in the upcoming election

Downloaded

The originally aired episode contained an error which placed the events of the previous episode, "Resistance," ten weeks prior. This was corrected for the DVD release and subsequent airings.

• Day 270:
  • Hera Agathon born, approximately one month premature
  • President Roslin, in secret from Admiral Adama, has Hera's death faked and child hidden as an adoption by Maya
  • Caprica-Six and Boomer are resurrected
  • Caprica-Six and Boomer resolve to persuade the Cylons to adopt a new approach in dealing with the Colonials

Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I

Tom Zarek states that the fleet has been "cooped up in metal boxes for nine months" the morning after the in this episode. This date is roughly taken as Day 270, with an implied give-or-take of a couple weeks. The surrounding events noted above can, however, be placed relative to this point with a good degree of certainty based on episode dialogue.

• c. Day 256 - Galen Tyrol begins a series of recurring suicidal nightmares
• c. Day 269 - Presidential debates begin. Kara Thrace, Felix Gaeta and Lee Adama brief pilots on Caprica SAR mission on Pegasus. Tyrol attacks Cally Henderson after being woken from a nightmare
• c. Day 270:
  • Talk Wireless reports on first debates
  • Caprica rescue mission departs
  • Racetrack accidentally discovers a habitable planet
  • SAR team arrives at Caprica and meets with Samuel Anders's Resistance
  • Tyrol begins counseling with Brother Cavil
• c. Day 280: Final presidential debate
• c. Day 283: Polls open (projected)

Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II

• Day 281:
  • Thrace's SAR team and Anders' resistance are pinned down by a Cylon sneak attack and are under siege for 18 hours
  • The next morning, the rescue discover the Cylons have completely abandoned Caprica and encounter a Cavil

• Day 282:
  • The SAR mission returns to Galactica
  • Cavil is discovered to be a Cylon agent

• Day 283:
  • The polls close and votes are tabulated; Baltar wins.
  • Tory Foster conspires to rig the vote results to keep Roslin in power
  • The plan is revealed to Admiral Adama, who convinces Roslin to step down to let Baltar become president

• Day 284:
  • Baltar is inaugurated President.
  • Gina detonates the nuclear warhead given to her by Baltar and destroys Cloud 9 and several other nearby ships

• c. Day 285:
• Adama visits President Baltar aboard Colonial One and questions him about the Cloud 9 disaster
• A defiant Baltar rebukes all his questions and accusations

• Between c. Day 285 and c. Day 315:
  • Many of Galactica’s and Pegasus’s crew muster out of the Colonial Fleet to settle on New Caprica
  • Anastasia Dualla is promoted to Lieutenant and requests to transfer to Pegasus as Lee Adama's XO.
  • Galen Tyrol and Cally Henderson marry. Cally Tyrol soon becomes pregnant
  • Felix Gaeta retires from military duty and becomes President Baltar's Chief of Staff
  • The fleet begins the process of settling on New Caprica.

Events from "Unfinished Business"

• c. Day 420: Four months or 120 days after settlement begins

The flashback sequences from "Unfinished Business" occurred 17 months prior to the present-day events of the episode, or 8 months prior to New Caprica's occupation by the Cylons.

• • Dualla's transfer to Pegasus is approved.
  • Galen and Cally Tyrol retire from Galactica and settle on New Caprica
  • Gaius Baltar and his administration celebrate the groundbreaking of the settlement on New Caprica. An all-night dance and celebration is held

• c. Day 421
  • Kara Thrace and Lee Adama have sex for the first time
  • Kara Thrace marries Samuel Anders, and Commander Adama and Captain Thrace avoid speaking to each other
  • Commander Adama proposes to Dualla

• Between c. Day 421 and c. Day 660
  • Lee Adama and Anastasia Dualla marry and remain on Pegasus
  • Sharon Agathon and Karl Agathon marry and remain on Galactica
  • Lee Adama takes to over-eating and gains significant weight between then and when the Cylons arrive
  • After settling on New Caprica, Tyrol becomes a union leader
  • James "Jammer" Lyman and Tucker "Duck" Clellan retire and settle on New Caprica.
  • Former President Laura Roslin becomes a school teacher on New Caprica, with Maya as her teacher's assistant
  • Samuel Anders contracts pneumonia

• c. Day 660 (360th day since settlement; assuming settlement day was day 300):
  • Admiral Adama discharges Saul Tigh from his duties aboard Galactica. He and Ellen Tigh settle on New Caprica
  • Galen and Cally Tyrol organize a general labor strike in protest of Baltar's poor leadership as President
  • Cylon forces invade and occupy New Caprica
  • Galactica and Pegasus escape with the remains of the Fleet to parts unknown with the Cylon advance

"Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance"

• Between Day 660 and c. 727:
  • Nicholas Tyrol is born to Cally and Galen Tyrol.
  • Kara Thrace is kidnapped and forced into a marriage-type arrangement with Leoben Conoy, whom she kills at any opportunity
  • A resistance movement is led by Saul Tigh, Galen Tyrol and later Samuel Anders

• c. Day 727 (427th day since settlement, 67th day of occupation)
  • Tyrol and Tigh have been organizing a budding resistance movement, but they find recruiting new soldiers is becoming dangerous and difficult.
  • New Capricans are shot on the spot if weapons are found in their tents
  • The Cylons form the New Caprica Police

• Duck refuses to work with the resistance, choosing to spend more time with Nora
• After some debate, the resistance leaders choose to hide weapons in the Temple of Artemis
• During the night, Tigh, Tyrol, Jammer, and Barolay disguise the weapons in the temple's altar

• Day 729?:
• Cally Tyrol and Nora are at the temple
• The Cylons attack the temple, killing Nora
• Duck is physically sickened by the news of Dora's death

• Day 730?:
• Tigh, Barolay, and Jammer discuss the effects of the attack, which has brought about positive effects for the resistance
• The general population has started to side with the resistance and 1,000 people protested outside Colonial One over the attack on the temple
• Since the attack, recruitment has become easier with 150 Colonials signing up

• Tyrol and Tigh discuss the arrest of Jammer by the Cylons
• Jammer is imprisoned in a Cylon detention center and is visited by a Number Five, who offers Jammer a key card and an implied invitation into the NCP.

Season 3

• Prior to the Season 3 premiere:
  • Saul Tigh is captured by the Cylons and detained. One of his eyes is literally ripped out by the Cylons.
  • Jammer and Duck enlist with the New Caprica Police.

Occupation

• c. Day 794 (494th day since settlement, 134th day of occupation): Colonel Tigh is released from the detention center

• c. Day 795:
  • Duck suicide-bombs a NCP ceremony
  • Felix Gaeta secretly provides the jamming frequencies
  • The resistance establishes communication with Racetrack's Raptor

• Sometime before the episode, "Precipice:" Laura Roslin is arrested by the Cylons.

Precipice

• c. Day 795: The NCP raid the tents of and capture numerous suspected resistance members, including Cally Tyrol
• c. Day 796:
  • Leoben Conoy introduces Kacey to Kara Thrace
  • Another suicide bomber damages the power substation
  • The Cylon conference forces Baltar to sign an execution order
  • Ellen Tigh steals a map marking the location for a secret rendezvous with Galactica's rescue coordination party, led by Sharon Agathon
  • Roslin and others on the execution order are arrested and later driven to the Pergamus Flats
  • Sharon Agathon's group lands, makes contact with Anders' party, and are soon attacked by Cylon forces
  • Shots ring out at the group execution site, where Jammer frees Cally Tyrol before the shooting begins

Exodus, Part I

• c. Day 796:
  • Tyrol's group ambush the firing squad and save Laura Roslin, Tom Zarek and many others
  • Sharon Agathon's marines save Agathon and the resistance group

• c. Day 797:
  • Number Three visits an oracle
  • The Cavil killed by Tyrol's ambush returns to Colonial One
  • Sharon Agathon infiltrates into the facility and obtains the Colonial ships' launch keys
  • Ellen Tigh is exposed as a traitor
  • Admiral Adama initiates the New Caprica rescue

Exodus, Part II

• c. Day 798:
  • Ellen Tigh is poisoned for her traitorous acts by her husband
  • The Battle of New Caprica begins; the Fleet is reunited and New Caprica is abandoned
  • Battlestar Pegasus is sacrificed in the battle
  • Hera Agathon is found by the Cylons, who also abandon New Caprica

Collaborators

• c. Day 800 (Day 3 of the Second Exodus)
  • James "Jammer" Lyman, and 12 others before him are executed by The Circle for being Cylon collaborators
  • Gaius Baltar awakens aboard a Cylon basestar for the first time after fleeing New Caprica
  • New President Tom Zarek names Roslin as his Vice President, and will resign to return Roslin to power
  • Felix Gaeta is tried and convicted by The Circle but is spared by Col. Tigh and Chief Tyrol
  • President Roslin abolishes The Circle and immediately pardons all those suspected of collaboration

• Between "Collaborators" and "Torn"

• • Lee Adama is demoted back to Major and resumes CAG responsibilies of Galactica
  • Helo serves as XO aboard Galactica

Torn

• c. Day 850:
  • Felix Gaeta reveals Baltar's research on the road to Earth to President Roslin and Admiral Adama
  • Caprica-Six and Three begin inquiring about the location of Earth and debating Baltar's usefulness.
  • Hot Dog christens Lieutenant Sharon Agathon with the callsign "Athena".
  • A Cylon basestar sent to investigate the Lion's Head Nebula is infected by a virus from an ancient probe
  • Kara Thrace and Saul Tigh sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on Galactica; Admiral Adama puts a stop to it
  • Athena and Racetrack find the Lion's Head Nebula and the dying basestar
  • Baltar returns to the basestar after his reconnaissance of the dying basestar, leaving out information on the probe, but his omission is uncovered

A Measure of Salvation

• c. Day 851:
  • A Colonial boarding party investigate the derelict basestar, and find that all but a few Cylons aboard have died
  • The boarding party and some Cylon prisoners are en route back to Galactica when the basestar self-destructs
  • The medical investigation identifies a virus that can be treated, but not cured for Cylons
  • Lee Adama suggests a plan to eliminate the entire Cylon race by executing their prisoners in range of a Resurrection Ship

• c. Day 852
  • Galactica jumps to a Cylon supply line, and launches Vipers and Raptors to attract the Cylon fleet
  • Helo sabotages the mission in secret
  • Aboard the basestar, Baltar is interrogated and tortured by Three and Caprica-Six

Hero

• c. Day 935:
  • President Roslin and Tory Foster draw up plans to honor Admiral Adama for his 45 years of service to the Colonial Fleet
  • Number Three begins experiencing strange visions
  • Galactica rescues Daniel Novacek a prisoner-of-war of the Cylons for over two years
  • Adama confesses to his son that he was responsible for shooting Novacek down and was possibly responsible for attack on the Colonies because of the mission

• c. Day 936:
  • Saul Tigh tells Novachek that Adama was responsible for shooting him down
  • Novacek confronts Adama and tries to kill him but Tigh intercedes

• c. Day 937
  • Number Three programs a Centurion to execute her in order to experience another vision. Before downloading she experiences a vision of the Opera House on Kobol and sees five figures in white robes
  • Adama submits his resignation to Roslin but she refuses to accept it and insists he attend the his ceremony

• c. Day 938
  • Novacek is sent off to a berthing and counselling on another ship
  • Tigh and Adama begin to reconcile

• c. Day 950

This section details the "current day" events aboard Galactica in the episode "Unfinished Business." Prior events recalled in the episode are documented in the timeline at Day 420.

• • The Galactica crew work out their aggressions in the boxing tournament
  • Admiral Adama resolves to begin treating his crew less like family and more like soldiers
  • Kara Thrace and Lee Adama fight each other in the ring and reconcile

The Passage

No timeline markers are available for this episode.

• The Fleet's food supply is contaminated
• Saul Tigh returns as Executive Officer on Galactica
• Sharon Agathon returns from a recon mission through a dangerous star cluster with data on a planet loaded with edible algae
• Galactica's Raptors successfully escort the Fleet in packs through the disorienting, radiation-laden star cluster, with some ship losses and casualties
• Kat dies

The Eye of Jupiter

No timeline markers are available for this episode.

• Resupply mission day 14-15:
• The Colonials are preparing to leave the algae planet
  • Tyrol finds the Temple of Five
  • A Cylon fleet arrives and attempts to negotiate for the Eye of Jupiter, but both sides are deadlocked; Adama threatens destruction of the Eye if the Cylons attempt to land
  • President Roslin's role in hiding Hera Agathon is revealed to Admiral Adama and Hera's parents
  • A secret Cylon Centurion landing party begins offensive operations
  • Starbuck is shot down by the Cylon's missile battery on the planet
  • A Heavy Raider group heads to the planet
  • Admiral Adama, in response to the Cylon incursion, prepares to destroy the planet's continent

Future Events

No current future events at this time.

Past Predictions

The following is a list of predictions that were made based off information from past episodes during the first run of the series. These predictions have since become obsolete or the events have been addressed in light of events from episodes aired after said predictions were made. They are kept here as a reference.

• Day 50 + 6 Months (c. Day 230): Roslin's maximum life expectancy as of Day 50 (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I).
• Day 86 + 1 month (c. Day 116): Roslin's maximum life expectancy as of Day 86 (Flight of the Phoenix)
  • Roslin's cancer is cured by fetal blood from Sharon's then-unborn child, Hera (Epiphanies).
• Day 54 + 3 months (c. Day 144): Samuel Anders's Caprica Resistance's anti-radiation med supply projected to run out (Resistance).
  • Anders' group survives in "Downloaded", c. Day 270. They could have simply found more stockpiles of anti-radiation meds in the intervening time period.
• Day 12 + 7 Months (c. Day 222): Elections due for President of the Twelve Colonies (Bastille Day).
  • The elections eventually come, about two months late, in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
• Day 24 + 9 Months (c. Day 294): "Caprica" Sharon Valerii's daughter born. (see Notes below)
  • Hera, daughter of Helo and "Caprica" Sharon Valerii is born premature c. Day 270 (Downloaded).
• Day 36 + 3 years (c. Day 1131): Fleet runs out of tylium fuel that was resupplied from the Cylon asteroid mine; assuming that no other sources have been found before this date. (The Hand of God)
  • We may presume that the Fleet's use of Tylium was essentially halted during the 17+ month stay on New Caprica.
• Day 260 (approx) + 18 years (c. Day 6,830) Time at which, if the Survivor count keeps up its current rate of decline and never increases, the human race will simply go extinct, according to Baltar's estimate in "The Captain's Hand".
  • Due to the destruction of Cloud 9 and surrounding ships in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II", and subsequent casualties during the Battle of New Caprica (Exodus, Part II), this figure must be drastically revised.

Analysis of Colonial Dates

In "Hero", William Adama's dossier can be clearly seen. While this document is fairly accurate in terms of Adama's personal history, the dating scheme used in the document seems to be flawed, particularly in lieu of previously established methods of timekeeping demonstrated in the series.

Here are a list of dates from Adama's past that the dossier contains:

H5/21290 Birth of William Adama

D6/21311 First commission, Battlestar Galactica, fighter squadron

E4/21312 Commendation for shooting down Cylon fighter in first combat mission.

D5/21314 Mustered out of service post-armistice

R6/21317 Served as Deck Hand in merchant fleet and as common […] aboard inter-colony tramp freighters

D1/21331 Recomissioned to Fleet

D6/21337 Major: Battlestar Atlantia

R8/21341 Executive Officer: Battlestar Columbia

C2/21345 Commander: Battlestar Valkyrie

C2/21348 Commander: Battlestar Galactica

This provides some interesting information. The fields in the format X#/##### appear to be dates, with the five-digit string following the solidus apparently corresponding to the year.

The following can be deduced from this document:

• This episode marks the 45th anniversary of Adama's commissioning, which puts it in the year 21356, and makes Adama 66 years old.
• Adama spent three years in between being mustered out and finding a job on a tramp freighter. We may speculate that it was during this time that his relationship with first wife Caroline deteriorated.
• Adama spent a total of 14 years serving in the merchant fleet.
• Adama met Tigh roughly 30 years ago (Torn). That would be 21326, which correctly puts it in the middle of Adama's merchant fleet service.
• Adama was a major by the time he arranged for Tigh to be reinstated in the fleet (Scattered), which means that at least six years passed in between Adama's recomissioning and Tigh's.
• Ronald Moore stated in his podcast for "Scattered" that the flashback scenes in that episode took place 20 years before that episode, or in 21334. In fact, they appear to span at least an eleven-year period between 21326 (Adama and Tigh's first meeting) to 21337 (Adama's promotion to Major).
• The first Colonial Day, marking the unification of the Colonies, was probably in 21302. The one celebrated in "Colonial Day" was the 52nd, and it is now two years later.
• Galactica herself is at least 45 years old. Other battlestar's minimum ages prior to the Fall: Atlantia at least 13, Columbia at least 11, and Valkyrie at least 8.

Additionally, an error occurs in "Hero". Dialogue from this episode claims that Adama served on Valkyrie one year prior to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, putting the date of Lt. Daniel "Bulldog" Novacek's capture at 21352-53. However, Adama's command of Valkryie ended in 21348, which means that Adama commanded Galactica for eight years. It has already been established in dialogue from the Miniseries, "Act of Contrition", and "The Farm".

Inference about dating structure

If the five-digit string following the solidus is in fact the year, as seems inescapable based on the above, the letter-digit sequence before it must indicate the position in the year. There are 260 unique letter-digit sequences of that format, which may indicate a shorter year in the Colonial calendar, essentially a year of twenty-six ten-day weeks. However, what has been revealed about Colonial timekeeping is too incomplete to draw any conclusions.

However, if the above is to be inferred, a striking inaccuracy occurs because of this service record. Prior episodes have firmly established that the Colonial year is analogous to one Earth year of 365 days. In "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down", the Cylon detector takes 11 hours to thoroughly test each blood sample. As there are 47,905 tests (526,955 hours) this will take him 21,956 days, which Six then computes will take approximately 60 years, the same as it would here. The dating further established in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II", "Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance", and "Occupation" also support this comparison.

It is astonishing to learn that the Colonials have -- or believe they have -- over 21,000 years of recorded history. By comparison, Pythia was said to have recorded her prophecies 3,600 years ago (The Hand of God) and the Great Exodus from Kobol took place just 2,000 years ago. On Earth, Human civilization is only about 6,000 years old.

Further contradictions

Adama's resignation letter at the end of the episode appears to be dated in an entirely different format. It's difficult to read clearly, but it appears to be dated "27/89/9923".

In addition, the execution order written by the Cylon Occupation Authority and signed by then-President Gaius Baltar is dated "this second day of 3454-91" (Occupation).

Given this, it is extremely likely that little thought was given to the Colonial calendar dating scheme to date.

Re-imagined Series definition: denotes any time preceding the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, e.g. 40 BCH (see: Timeline (RDM))

Re-imagined Series definition: the process of using the FTL engines to make an near-instantaneous apparent faster-than-light transport of a ship from one point in space to another

Re-imagined Series definition: used to signify a civilian transport vessel over a certain gross weight/mass, i.e. Colonial Heavy 798

Re-imagined Series definition: the senior pilot on a battlestar

Re-imagined Series definition: the act of finding missing persons in the hopes of their rescue, see: SAR ^{(TRS: "Fragged")}

Re-imagined Series definition: Executive Officer, e.g. Saul Tigh

Original Series definition: the equivalent of saying "objection" in a Colonial Tribunal ^{(TOS: "Murder on the Rising Star")}

Re-imagined Series definition: pseudo-civilian law enforcement agency overseen by the Cylon Occupation Authority on New Caprica, see: New Caprica Police ^{(TRS: "Occupation")}

Re-imagined Series definition: a nickname used as a substitute for an aviator's given name in wireless communications and in conversation